> Regards,
> Ariel
>
>> On Apr 22, 2018, at 8:26 AM, Avi Kivity <a...@scylladb.com
<mailto:a...@scylladb.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 2018-04-19 21:15, Ben Bromhead wrote:
>>> Re #3:
>>>
>>> Yup I was thinking each shard/port would appear as a discrete
server to the
>>> client.
>> This doesn't work without additional changes, for RF>1. The
token ring could place two replicas of the same token range on the
same physical server, even though those are two separate cores of
the same server. You could add another element to the hierarchy
(cluster -> datacenter -> rack -> node -> core/shard), but that
generates unneeded range movements when a node is added.
>>
>>> If the per port suggestion is unacceptable due to hardware
requirements,
>>> remembering that Cassandra is built with the concept scaling
*commodity*
>>> hardware horizontally, you'll have to spend your time and
energy convincing
>>> the community to support a protocol feature it has no
(current) use for or
>>> find another interim solution.
>> Those servers are commodity servers (not x86, but still
commodity). In any case 60+ logical cores are common now (hello
AWS i3.16xlarge or even i3.metal), and we can only expect logical
core count to continue to increase (there are 48-core ARM
processors now).
>>
>>> Another way, would be to build support and consensus around a
clear
>>> technical need in the Apache Cassandra project as it stands today.
>>>
>>> One way to build community support might be to contribute an
Apache
>>> licensed thread per core implementation in Java that matches
the protocol
>>> change and shard concept you are looking for ;P
>> I doubt I'll survive the egregious top-posting that is going on
in this list.
>>
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 1:43 PM Ariel Weisberg
<ar...@weisberg.ws <mailto:ar...@weisberg.ws>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> So at technical level I don't understand this yet.
>>>>
>>>> So you have a database consisting of single threaded shards
and a socket
>>>> for accept that is generating TCP connections and in advance
you don't know
>>>> which connection is going to send messages to which shard.
>>>>
>>>> What is the mechanism by which you get the packets for a
given TCP
>>>> connection delivered to a specific core? I know that a given
TCP connection
>>>> will normally have all of its packets delivered to the same
queue from the
>>>> NIC because the tuple of source address + port and
destination address +
>>>> port is typically hashed to pick one of the queues the NIC
presents. I
>>>> might have the contents of the tuple slightly wrong, but it
always includes
>>>> a component you don't get to control.
>>>>
>>>> Since it's hashing how do you manipulate which queue packets
for a TCP
>>>> connection go to and how is it made worse by having an accept
socket per
>>>> shard?
>>>>
>>>> You also mention 160 ports as bad, but it doesn't sound like
a big number
>>>> resource wise. Is it an operational headache?
>>>>
>>>> RE tokens distributed amongst shards. The way that would work
right now is
>>>> that each port number appears to be a discrete instance of
the server. So
>>>> you could have shards be actual shards that are simply
colocated on the
>>>> same box, run in the same process, and share resources. I
know this pushes
>>>> more of the complexity into the server vs the driver as the
server expects
>>>> all shards to share some client visible like system tables
and certain
>>>> identifiers.
>>>>
>>>> Ariel
>>>>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018, at 12:59 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>>>> Port-per-shard is likely the easiest option but it's too ugly to
>>>>> contemplate. We run on machines with 160 shards (IBM POWER
2s20c160t
>>>>> IIRC), it will be just horrible to have 160 open ports.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It also doesn't fit will with the NICs ability to automatically
>>>>> distribute packets among cores using multiple queues, so the
kernel
>>>>> would have to shuffle those packets around. Much better to
have those
>>>>> packets delivered directly to the core that will service them.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> (also, some protocol changes are needed so the driver knows
how tokens
>>>>> are distributed among shards)
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2018-04-19 19:46, Ben Bromhead wrote:
>>>>>> WRT to #3
>>>>>> To fit in the existing protocol, could you have each shard
listen on a
>>>>>> different port? Drivers are likely going to support this due to
>>>>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7544 (
>>>>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-11596). I'm
not super
>>>>>> familiar with the ticket so their might be something I'm
missing but it
>>>>>> sounds like a potential approach.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This would give you a path forward at least for the short term.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:10 PM Ariel Weisberg
<ar...@weisberg.ws <mailto:ar...@weisberg.ws>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I think that updating the protocol spec to Cassandra puts
the onus on
>>>> the
>>>>>>> party changing the protocol specification to have an
implementation
>>>> of the
>>>>>>> spec in Cassandra as well as the Java and Python driver
(those are
>>>> both
>>>>>>> used in the Cassandra repo). Until it's implemented in
Cassandra we
>>>> haven't
>>>>>>> fully evaluated the specification change. There is no
substitute for
>>>> trying
>>>>>>> to make it work.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There are also realities to consider as to what the
maintainers of the
>>>>>>> drivers are willing to commit.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> RE #1,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am +1 on the fact that we shouldn't require an extra hop
for range
>>>> scans.
>>>>>>> In JIRA Jeremiah made the point that you can still do this
from the
>>>> client
>>>>>>> by breaking up the token ranges, but it's a leaky
abstraction to have
>>>> a
>>>>>>> paging interface that isn't a vanilla ResultSet interface.
Serial vs.
>>>>>>> parallel is kind of orthogonal as the driver can do either.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I agree it looks like the current specification doesn't
make what
>>>> should
>>>>>>> be simple as simple as it could be for driver implementers.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> RE #2,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> +1 on this change assuming an implementation in Cassandra
and the
>>>> Java and
>>>>>>> Python drivers.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> RE #3,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It's hard to be +1 on this because we don't benefit by boxing
>>>> ourselves in
>>>>>>> by defining a spec we haven't implemented, tested, and
decided we are
>>>>>>> satisfied with. Having it in ScyllaDB de-risks it to a certain
>>>> extent, but
>>>>>>> what if Cassandra decides to go a different direction in
some way?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I don't think there is much discussion to be had without
an example
>>>> of the
>>>>>>> the changes to the CQL specification to look at, but even
then if it
>>>> looks
>>>>>>> risky I am not likely to be in favor of it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>> Ariel
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018, at 9:33 AM, glom...@scylladb.com
<mailto:glom...@scylladb.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 2018/04/19 07:19:27, kurt greaves
<k...@instaclustr.com <mailto:k...@instaclustr.com>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 1. The protocol change is developed using the Cassandra
process in
>>>>>>>>>> a JIRA ticket, culminating in a patch to
>>>>>>>>>> doc/native_protocol*.spec when consensus is achieved.
>>>>>>>>> I don't think forking would be desirable (for anyone) so
this seems
>>>>>>>>> the most reasonable to me. For 1 and 2 it certainly
makes sense but
>>>>>>>>> can't say I know enough about sharding to comment on 3 -
seems to me
>>>>>>>>> like it could be locking in a design before anyone truly
knows what
>>>>>>>>> sharding in C* looks like. But hopefully I'm wrong and
there are
>>>>>>>>> devs out there that have already thought that through.
>>>>>>>> Thanks. That is our view and is great to hear.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> About our proposal number 3: In my view, good protocol
designs are
>>>>>>>> future proof and flexible. We certainly don't want to
propose a
>>>> design
>>>>>>>> that works just for Scylla, but would support reasonable
>>>>>>>> implementations regardless of how they may look like.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Do we have driver authors who wish to support both projects?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Surely, but I imagine it would be a minority.
>>>>>>>>>
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